addendum to last post: it's tough being a landlord.

[vulgarweed]

As a member of the American People, I get asked to vet job applications all the time. (They work for us. Not the other way around.) WE hold the lease on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC, and all sorts of people keep trying to rent it. But I'm picky. The rent is so so so much more than money. The rent is decades of premature aging and the trust of the world. It's responsibility beyond your wildest nightmares.





I'd give them my keys and trust them to feed my cat.

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Camelot comparisons are well-deserved.

[sarken.livejournal.com]

They are absolutely adorable. Chris Matthews or someone on MSNBC was talking about the "fist punch" they shared before the speech tonight, and I still can't believe I tuned in too late to see it.

I can't quite believe that he's the presumptive nominee. I mean, I really haven't wrapped my head around it in the slightest. I suspect I will be grinning stupidly and inexplicably for days once it sinks it, though.

Re: Camelot comparisons are well-deserved.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

This one, you mean?

Re: Camelot comparisons are well-deserved.

[sarken.livejournal.com]

OMG. *IZ DED OF TEH CUTE*

That would be the one, yes. :D

Tomorrow, I will make that my first Obama icon.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Erm, oooh, not trust of the world, I'm afraid. Not that I want to hash your squee and all that, but still...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

You have to wait and see. It's really all about "we can do better, we promise."

I know we have to earn everyone's trust back. That was frankly my biggest factor in deciding who to vote for in the primary.

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I don't think we trust our own polticians, so we aren't going to start trusting anyone else's.

Being marginally less... Bush would be welcome

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I just hope our new potential tennants can clean up all the shit the last guy and his idiot friends left behind.

Seriously, I feel like the country's been subjected to an 8-year keg party hosted by a bunch of fraternity yahoos. And now we, the American people, have to clean up all the vomit and beer cans.

Can we at least withhold Bush's security deposit?

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

100% ditto that.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

At the very least, our "letter of recommendation" for the chimp will be nothing of the sort. (as in, "Even if I really needed the insurance money I wouldn't hire this fool as an arsonist.")

[hopita.livejournal.com]

... and when I came back to town, I'd probably find that they'd not only fed my cats, but cleaned the litter boxes, taught the cats a new trick, cleaned the apartment, and fixed that lock that had been sticking too.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

And they left a box of chocolates.

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awesome. I am so proud of this.

(but I can't help it - I still love Hillary- I really do)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's HUGE. SO HUGE.


See, that makes me sad, because I used to love Hillary, and after this campaign and the way she ran it...I so wish I still could, and yet I just don't. I wanted her to be brave and brilliant and visionary like I know she can be...and she wasn't. She had all the money and party backing on her side, it was hers to lose--and she lost it.

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

but maybe she'll redeem herself- I have hope for her!

knowing that she was hanging out with Obama this evening makes me smile hugely.

And yes- (was it this post or the previous one)- you've been talking about Obama as the one for a while - in fact, my dear dear V, it was you who first brought him to my attention!

xooxoxM

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well, I do live in Illinois, and I do work for a newspaper here, and the idea that there was something ineffably special about him has been kicking around this town since the mid-90s. And when he was making his Senate run, which we knew he'd win even before Seven of Nine's husband dropped out, and he made that speech at the Democratic Convention in 04==that was the moment when all my small hairs stood up and I knew all of a sudden what that "specialness" was: that he was going to be the first black President. It was just GOING to happen.

I thought it'd be in 2012 or 2016, though.

[lixtetrax.livejournal.com]

That is a fucking PROFOUND statement.

Barak Obama, despite having a weird name lolz omg, is by far the most wholesome person in the entire nation. He's like if Kennedy was actually as great as the idea of Kennedy. This is the greatest thing evar.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

He IS. He's so frakkin' boy-next-door All-American. Why yes, he is bi-racial and bi-national and wrote openly in his first book about having tried cocaine as a kid....

that IS wholesome and all-American and normal to me. It seems the right-wing idea of "wholesome" is some all-white sheltered suburbanite TV tableau, and I don't know anyone like that in real life! That kind of background seems kind of unwholesome to me, like it's extremely artificial and could only happen with a conscious effort to shut most of the world out, which is just viscerally gross.